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| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure — The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
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| CNBC: |
The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories — - The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern …
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LinkedIn: Robert Weinhold, Georgios Plevris, and Maarten Stolk
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube revamps its TV app to make the viewing experience more interactive and giving greater prominence to chapters, comments, and video descriptions — YouTube is constantly tinkering with its app design across different platforms and screen sizes, and today, the company shared the latest changes coming to its TV-optimized app.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled The Don Lemon Show's partnership with X, hours after taping an interview with Musk on March 8 for the show's debut episode — The former CNN host interviewed the tech mogul last week, with the chat set to be the launch episode of his new ‘Don Lemon Show.’
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later this year, letting users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types — Microsoft is finally creating a single version of Microsoft Teams that will allow you to switch between personal and work accounts easily.
More: Windows Blog, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Windows Latest, Lifewire, Neowin, Neowin, XDA Developers, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Sora, set for release later in 2024, its training data, red-teaming Sora, working with the film industry, and more — In an exclusive interview with our columnist, CTO Mira Murati explains the company's new Sora AI video tool and how it plans to roll it out| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft adds GPT-4 Turbo to the free tier of Copilot, replacing GPT-4; Copilot Pro users still have the option to use GPT-4 — Microsoft is boosting the performance of its Copilot generative AI chatbot today. It has been confirmed that all free Copilot users can now access the GPT-4 Turbo large language model from OpenAI.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration — Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payment company, has released its long-in-the-works Bitcoin hardware wallet — but you can't use cryptocurrency to buy it.
More: Bitkey, The Daily Hodl, CoinGape, Decrypt, CoinDesk, and Crypto Briefing
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024 — Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and in Austin by the end of the year …
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Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind details SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills to play like a human; SIMA trained on No Man's Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and other games — Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing.
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Ali Arsanjani, PhD
Forums: r/Futurology and Slashdot
| Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: |
Lenovo plans to release the Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in EMEA and other Asian markets this month, starting at €599 — It's set to arrive in March — Technology manufacturer Lenovo has announced that the Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet … | Ali Winston / Wired: |
An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators who target, groom, and extort kids online — A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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| Washington Post: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft Copilot for Security will be generally available on April 1, payable via a new Security Compute Unit that costs $4 per hour — - The Microsoft Copilot for Security will cost $4 per “security compute unit” when it becomes available in April.
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LinkedIn: Yuliya Slesareva Godoy, Vasu Jakkal, Marko Lauren, Andrew Bentley, Satya Nadella, Evan Williams, and Shawn Bice
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website — Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link.
More: About Amazon, Chain Store Age, PYMNTS.com, and GeekWire
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Spotify rolls out music videos on mobile and desktop in beta in 11 markets, including Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, and the UK, for Premium subscribers — Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company's music library … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, tailored for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, saying it's “the fastest and most affordable model” in its class — San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models.| Reuters: |
Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, raised $106M led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation — Nvidia-backed Together AI said on Wednesday it has raised $106 million in a new funding round, doubling its valuation since last fall …
More: SiliconANGLE, Together.ai, Salesforce Ventures, and Tech Startups
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum completes its Dencun upgrade, which lowers expenses on Layer 2 networks by storing data in “blobs”; a transaction that once cost $1 can now cost a cent — - Software upgrade reduces costs for so-called Layer 2 chains — Upgrade expected to spur on development of new apps and chains
More: The Block, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, and Decrypt
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K — Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services.
More: Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, Security Boulevard, and TechSpot
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A US jury convicts Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov for operating crypto “tumbler” Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021, laundering 1.2M+ BTC worth ~$400M — Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021.
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